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<strong>Al</strong>so in Ṣaḥeeḥ Muslim from the Ḥadeeth of Anas :رضيُاهللُعنه A person said: O Messenger<br />
of <strong>Al</strong>laah! Where is my father? He ﷺ said: ❝(He) is in the Fire.❞ When he turned<br />
away, he ﷺ called him and said: ❝Verily my father and your father are in the Fire.<br />
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well-structured inside a dome, then it is impossible that it would remind one of the Hereafter. The example of this<br />
is the world famous structure – The Taj Mahal, which is actually a Maqbarah (gravesite) of the wife of the Moghul<br />
king. People all over the world come to it to visit it, not because it reminds them of death or the Hereafter, but<br />
only to admire the beauty of its structure and as sightseeing. But from this Ummah, there are those who have<br />
opposed the teachings of the Prophet ﷺ and took the graves as places of worship. So we have the Ajmerees,<br />
Tijaanees, Disookees, Jilaanees among the many grave worshipers. May <strong>Al</strong>laah save us and our children from ever<br />
falling into Shirk.]<br />
,رضي ُاهلل ُعنه 35 Ṣaḥeeḥ Muslim (203) and there is another narration from the Ḥadeeth of Sa`d Ibn Abee Waqqaaṣ<br />
which will be mentioned later.<br />
(Shaikh al-<strong>Al</strong>baanee said): Know that this Ḥadeeth, even though it is Ṣaḥeeḥ by itself, further has a lot of<br />
supporting chains, and the scholars known for their Ḥadeeth criticism (i.e. those who scrutinize a chain of<br />
narration to check its authenticity) have met it with acceptance. But Shaikh Abu Zahrah had boldly refuted it upon<br />
(1/132): ”] ُ النبيني “ book ignorance and went into extremes. He said [in his<br />
“It is a strange narration in its meaning like it is strange in its chain; because <strong>Al</strong>laah تعاىل said:<br />
خامت<br />
﴿وَمَاُك نَّاُم عَذِّبِنيَُُحَّتَّىُُنَب عَثَُُرَس وّل ُ﴾<br />
{And We never punish until We have sent a Messenger (to give warning)} [Surah al-Israa’ (17): 15]<br />
The father of (Prophet) Muḥammad ﷺ and his mother (died) in al-Fatrah (the period prior to Islaam - those<br />
who received no message or messenger); so how can they be punished?... and in reality, I found it hard to<br />
imagine that Abdullaah and Aaminah will be entering the Fire!”<br />
I (al-<strong>Al</strong>baanee) say: Sub-ḥaan <strong>Al</strong>laah! Is this the stance of the one who believes in the Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah firstly;<br />
and secondly in the sincere and truthful scholars (of this Ummah), those who narrated these Aḥaadeeth for us,<br />
and safeguarded them for us, and segregated the authentic from the weak for us, and unanimously agreed that<br />
this Ḥadeeth is authentically established from the Prophet !?ﷺ Is not this stance of Abu Zahrah from the ways<br />
of the people of desires – like the Mu`tazilah and other than them – those who would praise and criticize<br />
according to their intellects; the ones who were heavily refuted by Ahl al-Sunnah (wal-Jamaa`ah)?<br />
The Shaikh (Abu Zahrah) claims that he is from them (Ahl al-Sunnah), then what is the matter that he had<br />
opposed them and chose the path of the Mu`tazilah of using the intellect as a means of judging (the Text); and<br />
their method of rejecting authentic Aḥaadeeth because it goes against their desires – either rejecting the Ḥadeeth<br />
completely, or misinterpreting (or distorting the meaning) if they are not able to reject it outright?! This is what<br />
the Shaikh (Abu Zahrah) has done, he rejected this Ḥadeeth assuming that it is a strange narration. And he<br />
misinterpreted the Aḥaadeeth of (the Prophet’s) visit (to his mother’s grave) by saying: “Perhaps the Prophet<br />
was denied permission to seek forgiveness (for his mother) because there was no need for him to do so, as ﷺ<br />
no Prophet was sent to address her.”<br />
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